Grace Mae Rivers

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The Sabine County Reporter
August 6, 2008, Page 9

Grace Mae Sanders

Grace Mae Sanders, 88, of Milam, died Tuesday, July 29, 2008 at Twin Lakes Care Center in San Augustine.

She was born December 30, 1919 in Ebarb, LA, to Henry RIVERS and Emma PROCELL. She was a homemaker and a member of Bragg Chapel Missionary Baptist Church in Milam.

Survivors: sons, Jerry B. Sanders ans wife, JoAnn of Milam, Charles Buford Sanders of San Augustinee, and David Shirel and wife, Renea of Center; daughters, Glora Anna GARZA of Milam, Carol Glenda WISE and husband, Billy of Milam, and Helen Anita MEEKS and husband, John of San Augustine; brother, Garland RIVERS of Blanchard, LA; sisters, Lavell RINSTRUM of Shreveport, LA, and Josephine WHITE of Zwolle, LA; 13 grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren; and two great-great-grandchildren.

Funeral services were held Thursday, July 31 at Starr Funeral Home Chapel in Hemphill with Wade Bryan officiating. Interment followed in New Hope Cemetery in Milam.

(Transcribed by Melinda McLemore Strong, August 2008)

Grace married David Glen Sanders on 24 Dec 1939. David (son of J. Bea M. Sanders and Sallie Frances Bragg) was born on 7 Apr 1918 in Texas; died on 20 Nov 1984 in Sabine County, Texas; was buried in New Hope Cemetery, Milam, Sabine County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Living
2. Jerry B. Sanders was born on 8 Jun 1942 in Sabine County, Texas; died on 30 Jan 2022 in Milam, Sabine County, Texas; was buried on 5 Feb 2022 in New Hope Cemetery, Milam, Sabine County, Texas.
3. Carol Glenda Sanders was born on 27 Dec 1943 in Sabine County, Texas; died on 23 Sep 2020 in Hemphill, Sabine County, Texas; was buried in Wise Cemetery, Milam, Sabine County, Texas.
4. Living
5. Living
6. David Shirel Sanders was born about 1960; and died.